Printemps loves New York

Yes, Printemps loves New York!! Printemps, the upscale department store in Paris is celebrating American fashion and culture with these clever window displays. For this event, the Franco-American pop street artist Mr. Brainwash has created 14 exclusive extra-large works on the theme of New York and its icons, including a gigantic King Kong hovering at the entrance to the store. Throughout the month, Printemps is offering limited-edition tees by 15 American designers, Marc Jacobs, Michael Kors, DVF, Tory Burch and Ralph Lauren among them.

Courtesy Printemps

The Pink Wishbone Project, a Charity Event

Chairs become Art, to benefit Breast Cancer Research. Thanks to Suite New York, a Manhattan furniture showroom, Hans Wegner’s famous Wishbone Chair, made in Denmark by Carl Hansen and Son, will be available in pink for the next year, with 20 percent of its sales going to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. 
The project will kick-off with a cocktail party this evening October 7th at Barneys NY that BCRF founder Evelyn Lauder is set to attend. The twenty chairs will be on display and will later be auctioned with 100 percent of the proceeds to benefit BCRF. Twenty of the world's leading women interior designers have each created one-of-a-kind cushions for the chair.
Kelly Behun, Sheila Bridges, Alexandra Champalimaud, Neisha Crosland, Lulu de Kwiatkowski, Tori Golub, Alexa Hampton, Allegra Hicks, Julie Hillman, Annie Kelly, Celerie Kemble, Kit Kemp, Laura Kirar, Amy Lau, Katie Lydon, Emma Jane Pilkington, Sara Rotman, Ruthie Sommers, Kelly Wearstler, and Bunny Williams have donated extraordinary cushions that are for the most part, elegant and charming.

 Cushion with tentacles made of suede fringe
Sara Rotman

Lulu de Kwiatkowski

Kelly Wearstler

Cushion covered in cotton wicks
Tori Golub

Kelly Behun

Julie Hillman

Bunny Williams

Courtesy Suite New York

Auction starts October 7 to October 28, 2010 on Charitybuzz

Fashion Chic, European Fashion in L.A.

To continue on the period pieces theme (see previous post on Hollywood), a look at the European Fashion exhibition currently on view at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

" Fashioning Fashion: European Dress in Detail, 1700-1915 " 

Over the past year, hundreds of eighteenth to early twentieth–century garments have passed through the Textile Department at LACMA’s Conservation Center: royal wedding gowns, French Revolutionary waistcoats and breeches, and Victorian walking suits, to name a few. These historic costumes are part of the recently acquired costume collection to be featured in the exhibition Fashioning Fashion, opening now until March 6, 2011 in the new Resnick Pavilion. A beautiful show that displays delightful items such as a Paul Poiret designed feathered turban, an 18th century vest embroidered with early slogans from the French Revolution and many more.
One of the exhibit’s highlights is a diaphanous pink silk gown from the 1830s. The skirt is decorated with a sea of faux pearls which weigh down the sheer silk and would click together lightly as its wearer moved.

Detail of the dress from England, circa 1830

Faux pearls

An evening mantle with silk embroidery, glass beads, and ostrich feathers by French couturier Emile Pingat, 1891

Man's suit, France, circa 1760

Coat and waistcoat: wool plain weave, with sequins and metallic-thread embroidery

House of Rouff, circa 1897

Silk twill and silk cut velvet on twill foundation

Vest, France, 1789-94

Linen canvas with silk needlepoint

A silk satin French waistcoat, circa 1715

A silk and cotton satin European dress, circa 1790

An English linen plain weave and cane hoop petticoat, circa 1750-80

A Paul Poiret silk turban with turquoise cabochon and egret feathers, circa 1911

An English silk satin dress, circa 1765

A Portugese silk satin dress, circa 1845

A magnificent collection

Courtesy Lacma

Scott Tennent @Unframed

From Hollywood, back to the future

Just for fun. Here are a series of pictures of movie stars photographed in costume from middle ages or Victorian times holding modern accessories such as a Starbucks latte, an IPhone or other cell phones, an IPad, a water bottle, a plastic cup, a designer  tote bag or a bag of chips while filming scenes that take place in the days where none of those things existed.

Orlando Bloom

Milla Jovovich

Hailee Steinfeld

Robert Downey Jr.

Kate Winslet

Simon Begg

Rachel McAdams

Mia Wasikowska

Courtesy Vogue it